Lewis Howes: ...how to overcome emotional trauma

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Lewis Howes is a former professional author turned New York bestselling author, high performing business coach, and the host of one of the top podcasts in the world- The School of Greatness which has had more than 150 million downloads.

In this episode of Nobody Told Me Podcast, Lewis shares with us his childhood traumas and adulthood adversities that led him to be who he is today. He talks about sexual abuse as a kid that triggered self-hatred for many years and how talking about it helped in healing. Lewis also shares the main reason behind starting his podcast was as a pain outlet.

Listen in to learn the importance of releasing pain as a daily practice to heal. You will also hear advice on how to become the better version of yourself in the middle of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Episode Timeline:

[0:10] Intro
[1:52] Lewis talks about sexual abuse as a kid and a lot of unrest in his family.
[3:38] Finding healing and forgiveness by talking about it and making it a daily habit.
[4:25] Main reasons for starting the School of Greatness podcast.
[5:24] Lewis talks about the adversities he went through in 2008.
[7:47] How adversities taught him to be a resourceful and creative person.
[8:15] Advice on how to be a better version of yourself in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
[12:05] Becoming a serial money saver who barely wanted to spend.
[14:41] Accepting help and mentorship from people when you’re down.
[18:25] Figuring his passion for networking and connecting people to be an inspiration to others.
[25:16] Who does Lewis Howes admire?
[26:08] Appreciating challenges more by celebrating them as much as the good moments.
[29:21] Lewis’ definition of greatness over the years.
[30:37] What nobody told Lewis?
[32:21] Connecting with Lewis
[32:39] Outro

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:14.4	And I'm Laura Owens.
0:15.9	And we are thrilled to welcome Lewis Howes to this episode.
0:19.4	Lewis is a former professional athlete turned
0:21.8	New York Times bestselling author, high performance business coach, and a host of one of the
0:26.7	top podcasts in the world, the School of Greatness, which has had more than 150 million downloads.
0:33.1	And Lewis, I feel like I know you personally. I remember listening to you for hours and hours when I was truly at what I consider to be my wits end in the depths of depression and PTSD.
0:45.8	And I just remembered thinking to myself, okay, I can make it through another hour.
0:50.1	I can make it through another episode.
0:52.4	And I feel like it was in picking up the little bits of wisdom from you and your guests that gave me hope.
0:59.5	And then that eventually turned into confidence.
1:02.1	And that made me who I am today.
1:04.2	And I really feel like you saved my life and the show did.
1:07.1	And I could never be, you know, able to express how much your show has meant to me over the
1:12.9	years. Thank you. I'm happy to hear that. My whole mission is to impact people as much as I can
1:17.8	through the stupid lessons that I've made in my past, the mistakes I've made and how I've learned
1:23.9	and grown from them. And also by just seeking out wisdom from really smart people.
1:28.6	Really smart people. On how to apply those lessons in my life quicker and help people who can listen
1:33.9	to it. So I'm glad it's been impactful for you. Yeah. And you've accomplished so much,
1:38.7	but you had to go through so many dark times to get to be the Lewis Howls that you are today.
1:43.3	And a lot of that included trauma
1:45.7	that you suffered as a child. Can you talk to us about that and the impact that that had on you?
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